I have been aware of the broken pot fairy gardens for some time now and loved the way they looked (I had thought about making one to take to craft fairs but realised it would be much too heavy to transport) so I have finally got around to having a go.

I thought I was off to a good start because I had an old terracotta planter down the garden with a large crack in it, so today I emptied it ready to make a start.

I had a quick look on the web at how to crack the pot where you want it to crack and decided as it already had a large crack if I took a sharp chisel and tapped along the line I wanted it to crack it would be ok…………….it wasn’t……..

I may be able to use some of the pieces but this was definitely not what I had planned!!

I have another pot (a brand new one) but before I make a start on this one I am going to do A LOT more research on how to get the pot to crack where you want it to!!

So today instead I decided to gather and make pieces for the steps to add to the pot, I keep my old broken pieces of pot to use as drainage in other planters so started tapping pieces with a hammer to try and get small rectangular pieces, these are the pieces I have so far.

I was hoping for all the pieces to be a similar size, but that didn’t go to plan either and I have a lot more pieces that I can’t use than pieces that I can, I think this project is going to involve quite a lot of waste product!!!

Right I am off to do some research, thanks for looking!

Jackie 🙂